tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post615706862269497670..comments2019-05-12T23:03:17.271-07:00Comments on anisha shekhar mukherji: The Village, Now and Thenanisha shekhar mukherjihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08904611771998738664noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post-71224509082825200902012-07-22T23:06:15.275-07:002012-07-22T23:06:15.275-07:00I have been reading Ashis Nandy&#39;s An Ambiguous...I have been reading Ashis Nandy&#39;s An Ambiguous Journey to the City,and there is something very illuminating that he writes (p.15, The Journey to the Past as a Journey to the Self): <br />&#39;The obverse of the entry of the city as the locus of Indian consciousness is an erosion of the ability to imagine the village. By this I mean creative imagining-of the kind that invokes the fantasy of the &#39;archetypal&#39;, &#39;remembered&#39; but nevertheless living Indian village-in those staying in villages and in others who have little or no connection with rural India.The erosion is not total; there are individuals whose works disprove the theory of a decline. But, as a collectivity, creative Indians now have poorer access to the village of the imagination and the bonding that it once forged between individual creativity and its wider reception.&#39;anisha shekhar mukherjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08904611771998738664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3818587795509547010.post-20989077962568349692012-06-16T13:52:49.707-07:002012-06-16T13:52:49.707-07:00Being brought up on a stable diet of &quot;70% of ...Being brought up on a stable diet of &quot;70% of India lives in the villages&quot; in school textbooks and having roots in a village which I would twice a year, I am still trying to figure out why the villages have disappeared from the agenda of decision-makers and city-dwellers in general. In my own family, I have seen our village house which had 20 people in 1985 go under lock and key with just an annual cleaning by 1998. I can understand that as a culture, a village does not give you the anonymity or the fast rate of change that a city promises (but may or may not provide). As designers we may be able to contribute to making villages work, but not without getting all stakeholders and policy-makers to agree.Siddhartha Mishrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09635418734607472160noreply@blogger.com